The Pipe Organ

 

The organ at Foots Cray Baptist Church was originally built in 1972 by Kenneth Rust & Sons Ltd.  It was rebuilt in 1984 by Ralph Arnold of West Kingsdown with new key and stop action, a new Swell box and a substantial proportion of new pipework.

 

The instrument is tuned and maintained by Martin K Cross, The Church Organ Works of Grays, Essex.

 

Its specification is as follows:

 

Pedal

1. Bourdon                         14

2. Open Diapason                 8

3. Stopped Diapason       (Sw)8

4. Octave                            4

5. Flute                        (Sw) 4

    Great to Pedal

    Swell to Pedal

 

Great

6. Open Diapason                  8

7. Stopped Diapason        (Sw)8

8. Dulciana                     (Sw)8

9. Octave                             4

10. Flute                        (Sw)4

11. Twelfth                    (Sw)2⅔

12. Superoctave                    2

    Swell to Great

 

Swell 

13. Stopped Diapason            8

14. Dulciana                         8

15. Flute                              4

16. Dulcet                            4

17. Nazard                           2⅔

18. Fifteenth                        2

19. Nineteenth                     2⅓

20. Twenty Second                1

 

3 pistons to each manual (wih appropriate pedal)

 

Click here to see the entry at the National Pipe Organ Register which gives a more detailed description.